A memorial has been set up outside the Fort Worth Police Department’s South Patrol Division in honor of the officer killed while working at the scene of a fiery crash.
Sgt. Billy Randolph is being remembered as a leader and a hero.Randolph was killed on Monday when 25-year-old De Dujalae Evans drove the wrong way onto an off ramp on Interstate 35W.She struck Randolph, who was helping at the scene of a fiery 18-wheeler crash that had happened earlier in the morning.Police said Evans kept going after hitting Randolph. She was eventually taken into custody and had blood drawn.
Meanwhile, people have been leaving flowers and cards on a police SUV parked in front of the police station.Randolph served four years in the United States Air Force and then went on to have a nearly 30-year law enforcement career in Fort Worth.A representative from his family talked about their grief and what he meant to so many."We lost Bill, a faithful husband, father, grandfather, and a good friend to many of us," said Robert Mitchell, the family’s spokesman.
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